David Spencer, of the Centre For Crime Prevention think-tank, said: ‘These men have been convicted of some truly abhorrent offences and it beggars belief that they are now able to run up even bigger taxpayer-funded bills making spurious appeals in an effort to extend their stay in the UK.

‘These men clearly pose a threat to public safety. If someone is born overseas and commit such crimes in the UK, it is absolutely right that their citizenship should be revoked.’

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Daily Mail, 27 July 2017, link.

Peter Cuthbertson, of the Centre for Crime Prevention think-tank, said: ‘Britain bears far more than our share of the burden of these foreign fanatics taking advantage of asylum rules and freedom of movement to live here – and often live off the British taxpayer.

‘These hate preachers and Islamic terrorists are just another reason to bring immigration back under proper control.’

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Daily Mail, 28 June 2017, link.

David Spencer, of the Centre For Crime Prevention think-tank, said: ‘It is shocking that so many dangerous criminals are being released to offend again. Probation should be solely reserved for low-level offenders.’

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Daily Mail, 15 May 2017, link.

Peter Cuthbertson, of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “At 17 someone can be married, serve in the armed forces and drive a car – so treating that as a reason to be lenient towards serious crimes is ridiculous.

“There should be proper scrutiny of the parole board members who made this decision to release him as soon as possible, and how they got it so wrong.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: The Sun, 6 March 2017, link.

David Spencer, research director at the Centre for Crime Prevention think-tank, said: “This data highlights the risks open prisons pose to the public. Serious, violent and sexual offenders should not be considered for open prison places.

“It is time the Ministry of Justice stopped placing dangerous offenders in what seem to amount to taxpayer-funded holiday camps.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Sunday People, 12 February 2017, link.

Justice campaigner David Spencer, Research Director at the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “The very existence of these Facebook pages says much about the cushy conditions prisoners are enjoying in jails around the UK.

“For the Ministry to say none of the comments were made by serving prisoners shows how out of touch they are with the reality in the jail system, where the smuggling contraband items such as mobile phones is endemic.

“It is high time that they got to grips with security across the prison system as a whole, and ensured that a spell behind bars really does act as a deterrent to criminals, rather than them comparing it to a hotel stay.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Daily Mirror, 30 January 2017, link.

Campaigner Peter Cuthbertson, director of The Centre for Crime Prevention, told The Sun’s Tom Wells: ‘There’s a simple answer if people don’t want the criminal justice system to interfere with their holiday – don’t commit crime.’

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Mail Online, 24 January 2017, link.

David Spencer, research director at the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “Reoffending rates in the UK are still at scandalously high levels and any means by which potential reoffenders can be identified has to be welcomed.

“Now that it has been proved that polygraph machines have kept 23 potential sex offenders off the streets, it is high time that the technology was rolled out more widely.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Daily Star Sunday, 8 January 2017, link.

Peter Cuthbertson of the Centre for Crime Prevention, who was the Conservative candidate in this year’s election for Police and Crime Commissioner in Darlington and County Durham, said: “It’s worrying if police now prioritise noise issues over drug abuse.

“These people should not be above the law.

“It’s easy to blame the police, but there is a real issue about the courts being so lax on drug users that police lose interest in pursuing them.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: The Sun, 11 August 2016, link.

Centre for Crime Prevention director Peter Cuthbertson said: “Thugs and sex offenders who think they are finally going to prison are overjoyed when they find out that their prison sentence has been suspended.

“It makes a mockery of justice for victims and puts the public at great risk.

“These figures show that criminals given suspended sentences go on to commit hundreds of thousands of crimes.

“Suspended sentences should be abolished.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Sky News, 12 May 2014, link.

Peter Cuthbertson, author of the report and director of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “These figures prove that letting thousands of criminals off with one community sentence after another is failing miserably at protecting the public.

“Some of the worst figures are for the North-East and Yorkshire, suggesting this is where greater use of prison for serious offenders would be most effective.”

Political campaigner Mr Cuthbertson, who is originally from Darlington, added: “Community sentences fail to protect the public and fail to stop reoffending. Prison works.”

Click below to learn more, or get the full story here: Northern Echo, 20 February 2013, link.